Glod

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from gidd ‘hunger’, possibly applied as a nickname for someone who was very thin or, ironically, for someone who was excessively fat

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Glod is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 772K(measured from records)
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 103K
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 241K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈990 people, est.

Sources
157 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)

Congo - Kinshasa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from gidd ‘hunger’, possibly applied as a nickname for someone who was very thin or, ironically, for someone who was excessively fat.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Glod counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Glod is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈990 est.≈1 in 103K—Glod1
US United States4311 in 772K431Glod157
DZ Algeria≈180 est.≈1 in 241K—Glod1
DE Germany≈160 est.≈1 in 492K—Glod40
FR France≈160 est.≈1 in 421K29——
IT Italy≈150 est.≈1 in 422K—Glod3
NO Norway141 in 391K14Glod2

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Glod is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, United States, Argentina, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Glo'D, Glöd

  • Slovak surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Glód

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Глод, Hlod, Хлод

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Glod is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • probably from a Germanic personal name composed with Old High German (h)lut ‘clear’, ‘famous’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Romanian, mud, earth

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, GLOD, gloduri, s. n. (Pop.) 1. Noroi1; loc, teren, drum noroios. 2. Bulgăre de pământ uscat sau înghețat.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Eric Glodb. 1993LULuxembourgish table tennis player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Glod
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010431#48,901
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000411#48,293
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020402#55,187
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196135—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199129—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194124—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197121—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195121—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—14#48,713
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198114—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192113—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193110—

Reference works 4

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Glod mean, and where does it come from?
from gidd ‘hunger’, possibly applied as a nickname for someone who was very thin or, ironically, for someone who was excessively fat. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Glod have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 989 people named Glod in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled glod.
How common is the name Glod?
In the United States, the national register counted 431 people named Glod in 2010, about 1 in 772 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Glod”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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